skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A owns 1 share (the only share in existence for simplicity) and lends it to B.

B short sells to C.

C lends 1 share to D.

D short sells.

200% of outstanding shares are shorted.
Given the choice of not being born and being born into harsh conditions that result in an unhappy life and an early death, most people would take the 0.
Not really.

WPS was kinda close, but you needed to set up the router (most home users won't figure this out), and actually press a button on it to invite a user.

Apple's protocol is super user friendly, when someone tries to connect to my wifi at home, I get a popup offering to share my wifi password.

I'm glad this sort of protocol is being reverse engineered and FLOSS alternatives pop up, since it'll allow better interaction with Linux desktop and iOS guests.
Yes, we have a style guide and enforced auto-formatting tools (a la gofmt or clang-format). We didn't in the past, and I like the present much better: it frees me up while writing and reviewing code to not have to think about formatting. Almost everyone I talk to feels the same way.

It's a bit uncomfortable at first when you can't use your favorite style anymore, but the advantage of not having to think about style for me vastly outweighs the advantage of being able to code in my personal favorite style.
> Don’t target your SaaS at other indie hackers. It’s a small niche of people who like to build things.

This is what I've never totally understood about product hunt. Is the goal to get feedback from other creators, or launch to an audience that isn't necessarily your target market?
> You're proposing to make the market more efficient by giving the politicians more power to boss companies around and pick winners and losers.

I'd love to hear your analysis of how Norway is handling their oil reserves.

Huge companies are not paying taxes. That's a problem. You seem to think there's no good solution. I maybe agree. But I'm willing to move on to a bad solution. How about you?

> As it turns out, government is already entitled to N% of a company's profit, through corporate taxes.

If you think in practice that actually works, then you and I are on completely different pages.

> politicians start filling board seats with political apparatchiks

I'm proposing the government receive non-voting shares, or is just restricted from voting. I don't want politicians on boards.

In fact, if you're curious, I think that the major political parties should refuse to endorse anyone who doesn't 100% divest themselves of all future income, instead promising to receive all of their future income through their government pension. And elections should be publicly funded (each citizen gets $100 per year to allocate to whichever politician or party they want to, and that's it). Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United. Re-instate the Fairness Doctrine.

> everything shady about big business with everything shadowy about government

That you apparently believe they're not already 100% glued together already shows again that you and I are on completely different pages.

> More private equity, or just incorporating overseas.

Yes, we need a "Uniform Commercial Code" for taxation, around the world. We all suffer that that doesn't exist.

> Apple can just take its cash hoarde and invest like crazy

That problem already exists in many ways. We should never have allowed corporations to get as big as they are, and we should start to break them up. Competition is good.
Yeah, the recent cannonball run in a Taycan (Search Out of Spec Motoring if you want to see the details) had some similar issues.

In particular, the Mach-E seems to be struggling with low charge rates. However, that review is a press vehicle and was technically preproduction. I have yet to see someone knowledgeable going through the details with an actual customer delivered vehicle.
Huh, true, if Tesla allowed other cars to use the Supercharger, then the chances of a Tesla owner arriving to a fully occupied Supercharger location (full of all kinds of car brands) would increase quite a lot.

But if Elon was serious about what he said about climate, and wanting to turn the car industry electric, he should do exactly that, so that more people get electric cars, regardless of the brand.
So you're telling me API's are not useful while at the same time telling me that API's are useful. Trolls want API access for the same reason researchers want access. You could argue research is the first step to becoming an effective troll.
Insanely insecure, holy wow.
I agree with you, and I don't want my comment to be read as an indictment of academia exactly - we couldn't live without it, it has huge returns on investment, etc. It's worth reading 10 bad papers to find 1 with a kernel of a good idea (and worth spending research funding on 100 bad experiments to get 1 useful result).

I think what I mean to say is that the skills required in industrial research (which can be quite speculative in well-funded companies, by which I mean a 5% chance of success or so) are somewhat different from those required in academia.
Of course there are 'floors' to prices. Of course there are regional differences in cost of living. Of course. Of course. But that's not the argument here. Are you really trying to argue that in America it is not possible to live below your means? Really? Really really?

I mean... There are billions of dollars in remittances being sent by immigrants (of all income levels) working legally and illegally back to their families in their home countries. How are immigrants able to save? And yes, it should be an obvious statement that people, even poor people, in poor countries, find ways to save as well.
I'd recommend installing a linter to avoid wasting time discussing, reviewing and questioning standards. Opinions will vary, but I think we waste an enormous amount of mental energy on standards where I work.
California, from every source I've seen, has a major, systemic, generations long market failure.

Failure, yes. Market, no. Local governments will point guns at you if you try to build more housing.
If you comply with the WCAG 2.1, you have a pretty good legal defense. While it isn't "Law", it is the most widely known published standard and likely to be added to the law soon.

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
i unironically believe social media should be banned and is responsible for most of the negative aspects of society in the past 10 years
Can you cite your source?

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation_shootdowns_...
... says only one A-10 was lost during the conflict.
Ok, so you'll be able to use some of the Tesla charging stations assuming you're carrying around a bulky $150 adapter cable. You won't be able to use the Supercharger stations which I took as the main focus of TFA. I'm also wondering if this would work for any stations which would be selling power, it seems these are only basic systems without any billing. So mostly only those "patrons only" kind of stations.

Ultimately buying Tesla is supporting vendor lock-in and proprietary connectors instead of industry standards. And what a joke, as if Tesla bothered to even offer such a thing to allow the other automakers to use their connector and signaling.
IKEA is to furniture -- what Walmart is to general consumer goods and groceries...
FTFY: The moment the media makes a headline out of scientific research

> Heavy social media use is associated with worse scores on all outcomes in girls age 14 and 17, but only worse wellbeing for boys at age 14. In a model controlling for pre-existing levels of self-esteem and wellbeing, we find that low levels of physical activity remain associated with lowself-esteem and wellbeing scores in girls and boys through adolescence, while heavy social media use contributes to low self-esteem and wellbeing in girls, and wellbeing in boys at age 14.In focus groups, young people highlighted the positive and negative aspects of social media. While girls tended to focus on the negative impact on body image, boys felt that the images they saw on social media platforms could be aspirational.
I think that the greater question here is if human well-being is affected more by absolute wealth or by relative wealth.
Not just teenagers...
I want to grow up and be this ship.
> I feel that the reason that recruiting sucks is because there's a misalignment between the recruiter and the employer.

It seems you missed the message, maybe I should put more focus on explaining it.

I think recruitment sucks for other reasons. Recruiters and employers are very much aligned on getting as many people as they can, and that's the problem.

Quantity does not make for quality, and sure companies need quantity, but most would do better focusing on quality.
I.e, "All crooks will get their just desserts if we just wait long enough."
Unfortunately the amount of power in society is largely fixed, and income inequality combined with rulings like Citizens United lets that power be captured by the very few. I suppose it's nice that this kind of modern serfdom lets people live relatively "well", but if people sense they have no control over their government you're headed for trouble.
So far the SpaceX Starship solution seems to be commercially available cranes, commercially available "roll lifts" (flat beds with a lot of independently controlled wheels [1]), and simple launch sites that don't move around on land.

I have to imagine that SpaceX's solution is orders of magnitude cheaper than maintaining this giant custom vehicle NASA made.

[1] https://i.redd.it/wo6buoppcov31.png
The only way you can settle is to buy back the stock. You borrowed the shares from someone who lent them to you and now you need to return them.
If you look at the SEC website, they list all their current complaints filed against people for Insider Trading.

There are many [1].

[1] https://secsearch.sec.gov/search/docs?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affilia...
> There should be an economy of downcycling that allows for more affordable stuff, too. I just don't think that IKEA is that.

You're absolutely right! There often this. This is rarely anywhere near the IKEA price point, though. A dining room table for $200, however nice, would have eaten up two thirds of my furnishing budget. How does one manage chairs, a bedframe, and so on of good quality for $100?

It's not been my experience that a person can do that by being willing to drive hundreds of miles and owning a car, but YMMV. IKEA lets you do this reliably, and offers delivery services.

When your answer to "How do I furnish?" is "Do without until the perfect deal comes along", do you think it might be worth considering that your answer might not be great for everyone?
> Example: How many login forms have I seen, which will not show their input fields, if I do not allow their shitty scripts to run? ... They don't know the noscript tag or something?

This is often less about the developers not knowing a technique and more about the constraints they're working under. Maybe there's a third party auth library they're using that requires JS. Maybe either they or or their management have other priorities than removing JS from the login screen. It's not that hard to believe that scriptless login would fall fairly low on a team's priority list behind features more likely to drive revenue, etc.
This may be the most disjointed think I've ever read.

A depressing number of people here don't seem to have read it. But then neither it seems has the person who wrote it and added the headline.
> It sounds like Star Trek has a lot of similarities with the Culture novels. Both depict an imagined communist utopia in which everyone is flawless, that butts up against or sometimes interferes with other flawed societies.

For the most part Banks never writes a novel about the mainstream of Culture society because he admits in his own forewords and interviews that he can't imagine it (because humans may even be incapable of imagining true utopia) and what he can imagine wouldn't be a useful premise for the drama of a novel.

The novels are almost all entirely about exploring the flaws and the outskirts, the outsider perspectives on the Culture, the people that aren't happy inside the Culture and are looking for adventure or to leave or to fix something they found was broken about the Culture or at least a small part of it.

The difference between optimism and pessimism is that even in trying to find flaws, exploring the outskirts and the possible problems in intermediate spaces, Banks doesn't set out to tear down or destroy the Culture (though some of his unsuccessful protagonists may have that as a goal), but wonders how it enriches the Culture and how they would learn from their flaws/mistakes/imperfections, how they would use the loners and outcasts (as weapons, as players of games, as excuses and chances to grow and be better) that they don't always see eye to eye with, culturally speaking, but tolerate in their own strange ways.

A lot of the same applies to Star Trek, though often less intentionally self-aware as the Culture (but the Culture also has the benefit of learning from Trek and its flaws/mistakes). A lot of Star Trek is still a drama about how does a utopia confront its frontiers, its edges, its loners/rebels/outcasts, and most importantly its own flaws, and how does it use those conflicts to grow. (Even TNG/Voyager despite most of the problems being resolved by the end of a single episode, still have many great episodes about how the Federation isn't perfect/has room to grow.)
He didn’t understand the problem he created, so why should we expect him to understand his new position?
False: https://secsearch.sec.gov/search/docs?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affilia...
My day job uses clang-format for a larger C++ codebase. Our tech leads were for it to "automate" discussions on code style. Before it was integrated, it wasn't uncommon to have code style be a larger part of a code review.
I like the note about alternating dev weeks and marketing weeks, and using the marketing weeks to market what you developed the week previous. Documentation could also be considered part of the marketing bucket, too.
IIRC they use PKI with your keypair bound to your account. So if you own a Tesla and hack it you can pretend another car is that Tesla. You can also hack someone else's car but then they'd have to pay for your charging and that'd probably be stealing or something like that.
Very interesting

> or at least feel connected, without having to put in much effort.

I have experienced the other side of this, so to speak, having someone think that they have made a connection with me or contacted me etc. just because they made a post or sent a tweet/text assuming that I'd see it. I don't always see these things or spend my time logged into these sites.

There are some people (including family members) that simply no longer 'talk' to me but think that they are 'always telling me' things. I've been caught out with things like phone number changes, address changes because someone has moved home and think they have 'told me' because they did some random tweet to 'everyone' some time back.

There are two sides to 'staying connected', social media (generally speaking) has made these connections rather one-sided. Staying connected should be more like a gentle came of catch-and-throw but instead it's more akin to beig stood in front of one of those machines that fling balls at you relentlessly regardless if you are ready or not.

I hate it.
Ads need JavaScript, in general.

Rich logging/event tracking needs JavaScript, in general.

Native Apps tend not to be HTML-powered, they're powered by APIs that can also power Web sites that use JavaScript, again, in general.

A lot of these corporate-ey features rely on JS.
Were there any audio samples that I missed? I want to hear what it sounds like (short of pulling sources, building, pulling down examples ....).
I support innovation over industry standards that sandbag the innovator ("the industry" came up with J1772 and CHAdeMO, which were both clearly designed by committee). The industry setting the standards is the problem, which is why Tesla had to create Superchargers as a proprietary standard (and CCS is only now catching up to, and is still arguably inferior). The industry should consider setting better standards if they don't want Tesla setting them.
Excellent story. It's true that sometimes we should go back to the origin of the web, when it was mostly grey. I miss that web. I feel that it was an art to make it that ugly, but for me it was beautiful to the eyes.
yes it's very real, but it is used as a black-and-white "any and all inflation is bad" thing like in my example, especially when discussed on its own instead of holistically combined with things like economic growth and interest rates and other things.
It’s funny I went online in the 80s and had no supervision whatsoever. And it was pretty wild back then. I remember adults chatting with me when I was 10 and printing out and mailing me game manuals. Chat rooms with every kind of pornography and drug and explosive recipes. My parents would have been horrified and stopped it.

I survived, so maybe there are missing stories from people who didn’t. I learned lots of skills used every day for work and never did anything I’m ashamed or or criminal.

But with my own kids, I protect them more than I protected myself. I wonder about the paradox of whether I would have changed anything in my chaotic youth and whether I’m stunting my kids by sheltering them. But there’s YouTube videos of behedding that I don’t want to risk my kids’ mental health.

I feel like the paradise I envisioned after reading Heilein and Dickson and Stephenson is here now and I hate it. Now spend my time in the digital Galt’s Gulch.
The "retail traders vs Wall Street" narrative is so fucking stupid. Who do you think is earning PFOF for every trade that someone makes through their brokerage? Who do you think is earning the bid/ask spread every time someone buys or sells? Who do you think is collecting the theta from all the calls and puts people are buying?

And last of all, who do you think is going to be left holding the bag when the price eventually collapses after the short squeeze ends?
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They should be able to accept contactless cards only, without a PIN. Plenty of contactless-card vending machines (drinks etc) and ticket machines (train tickets etc) in Asia and Europe cope with the weather.
I'm saddened to see that almost a decade after Ember's release, the front-end world still insists rolling their own (terrible) reimplementation of it.

I would've expected that a decade later we would've settled on an Ember-like framework for the front-end and moved beyond constructing URLs and parsing JSON responses manually but apparently not.
They claim to have closed their position, but haven't had to demonstrate that. On the one hand, closing their position would have been the smart thing to do. On the other hand, claiming to have closed your position (but not having done it) would have been a smart thing to do, and cheaper if people believed it.

r/WSB does not seem to believe it. I believe we should know for sure one way or the other by Saturday, but I could be wrong about that.
I believe he's talking about damaged aircraft that made it home. The list I posted is aircraft that were literally shot down.
Here's an excerpt from the article -

Heavy social media use was linked to negative wellbeing and self-esteem, regardless of a young person's mental state, with more girls experiencing feelings of depression and hopelessness.

“Those who feel worse may turn to social media for solace or community,” Dr Amy Orben, research fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, said of the research.

“It’s not a vacuum, it works both ways."

Contrast that with the title of this post, which tries to establish a clear causal link from social media use to poor mental health.
Lessons here:

1) don't write stupid shit on Facebook

2) don't vote for morons who don't understand how precious democracy is
Javascript is available for microcontrollers within various ram footprints.

Here's one mentioned recently on HN
https://jerryscript.net/

There's even benchmarks for them.
https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
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The QR codes are standard and old. I have a sign at my front door with the QR code for my wifi so people don't have to ask me, and I've had that for years.

But the Apple sharing is something else entirely.
Bob Altemeyer would disagree. He formulated the idea of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) as a psychological condition. His research discovered that there is no corresponding left-wing authoritarianism -- that even the authoritarianism exhibited by followers of Stalin or Mao was right-wing.

Kinda hard to be authoritarian if one of your central beliefs is in the fraternity and equality of all. It's more useful to describe Stalinist USSR or Maoist China as right-wing regimes cloaked in leftist rhetoric.
> And cryptos like Ethereum have the potential to 10x/100x/1000x that with things like PoS vs. PoW as well as the fact that Ethereum smart contracts can not only replace banking but probably other industries as well, such as title companies and various other middlemen.

It's been 13 years now and nobody's done it, because that's a terrible idea. The reason lawyers exist is that all contracts have ambiguity and require a human to review and consider. All contracts have circumstances that aren't captured. Just ask the DAO folks.

Middlemen exist for a reason. Efficiency, conflict and ambiguity resolution, and so on.

Blockchains are only useful for things that are entirely captured within the blockchain. As soon as you interface the blockchain with the outside world you have to trust something to enter and capture that data accurately - garbage in, garbage out. Once you're trusting someone, you don't need a blockchain, just fire up and RDS instance and save everyone the headache.
Why is throwing away the old one, and buying a new one seen as a solution? Like huh? We're talking about waste.
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This is like saying the written word existed before the printing press. It certainly did, but technology has fundamentally changed its impact.
Here are the responses of the top economists on the effect of the minimum wage increase:

https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/15-minimum-wage/

They seem quite divided on both questions.
No, you can google that. Studies show that 50% of hires are underqualified
Institutional investors are pretty much anyone who manages money on behalf of someone else. I don’t know how the restrictions work but likely has something to do with what the institution’s purpose is.
This piece felt pretty one-sided, and given that it advocates for reducing costs to the petrochemical industry I was curious about the author and his potential motivations for writing this piece.

I found it informative that on his linkedin profile he describes himself as a "Chemical Engineering Consultant."
I actually think the problems outlined are pretty valid.

Yeah, there are solutions to them, but I think what the author is saying is that you have to subscribe to something batteries-included, like Meteor, or otherwise implement the solutions yourself from bits and pieces.
IKEA has some "halo" items, but most people, when they're talking about IKEA, are talking about stuff like their GALANT table/desks.

What IKEA item were you comparing it to?